The award-winning recipe from Brewing Classic Styles by Jamil Zainasheff and John Palmer, prepared and assembled in a ready to brew ingredient kit!

The hallmark of English pale ale is balance and drinkability. The strong or extra special bitter category has the most hop flavor and aroma of the English pale ale styles (excluding IPA), but it should not have the big late-hop flavor and aroma character of American pale ale or IPA. This category has more malt character than the other bitters, having a caramel and toasty malt body to balance the hops. This beer is great for quenching the thirst of every workingman. However, it’s therapeutic properties for repetitive stress injury will need to be evaluated on an individual basis.